[Bug 10354] New: "Zero is not allowed" is unclear as normative text. What happens if you do an IDL get on size for <select size=0>? Does it return 0 or 1? Browsers disagree: Gecko and WebKit return 1, IE and Opera return 0. At least in the case of <select size=0>, ret

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10354

           Summary: "Zero is not allowed" is unclear as normative text.
                    What happens if you do an IDL get on size for <select
                    size=0>?  Does it return 0 or 1?  Browsers disagree:
                    Gecko and WebKit return 1, IE and Opera return 0.  At
                    least in the case of <select size=0>, ret
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#ref
                    lecting-content-attributes-in-idl-attributes
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org


Section:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#reflecting-content-attributes-in-idl-attributes

Comment:
"Zero is not allowed" is unclear as normative text.  What happens if you do an
IDL get on size for <select size=0>?  Does it return 0 or 1?  Browsers
disagree: Gecko and WebKit return 1, IE and Opera return 0.  At least in the
case of <select size=0>, returning 1 makes more sense, since that's how it's
displayed in all browsers.  Maybe you could also update the section on select
to say that the display size is 1 if it would otherwise be 0, or make a new
algorithm "rules for parsing positive integers" and use that.  Test case:
<!doctype html><script>var el = document.createElement("select");
el.setAttribute("size", "0"); alert(el.size);</script> 

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